Bed of the foldable type.



1. M WHALBE.

BED OF THE FOLDABLE TYPE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2.191s.

Patented N0v. 2(), 1917'.

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J. M. WHALBE.

BED OF THE FOLDABLE TYPE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2.19:5.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB M. WHALBE,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in thecounty of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Beds of the Foldable Type, of which the followingis a specification.

Beds of the foldable type, of which numerous constructions are nowextant, were usually employed only for their space saving properties. Itis desirable that the same general form of construction should beapplicable to more than one use, 2'. e. the substitute for a stationarybed, and the present invention, in exemplifying this idea, provides acombination of structural elements, which can readily be used as afoldable bed, as well as a rocking crib or cradle, with specialprovisions for guarding the occupant, such as an infant, from fallingout of the contrivance under danger of bodily injury.

The first sheet of the drawings discloses in Figure 1, a side elevationof a bed or crib in extended condition, and in Fig. 2, a similar view infolded condition. Fig. l is a detail of construction. Fig. 3 is a sideView, of a modified form, Fig. 5, a side view of another modification ofconstruction, and Figs. 6, 7 and 8, are cross sectional views of detailsof construction of the same. Fig. 9 is an end view of a longitudinallyfoldable bed, Fig. 10, a side elevation thereof.

The reference numerals 1 and 2 indicate the end frames of a bed,supported on rollers r casters 3 and 4. Each post of the frame isprovided with a slot, 5 extending from the lower end of the post aconsiderable distance. The pivots 6, on the post, support the outer endsof the bars 7 and 8, the inner ends thereof being hinged together at 9.One of the bars, ad acent to the hinge, is provided with a pin 10,adapted to be engaged by a slide 11, having a slot 12, and a bladespring 13, is secured to the slide and contacts with the bars, forcausing a more secure engagement of the bars. The hinge 9 is so disposedon the inner end of the bars, that the latter can swing downwardly only,and when the slide 11, is pushed across the abuttin ends of the bars,the bars are rigidly he d in position and prevented from being swung ineither direction. A series of lazy-tong elements 14, have their ends secification of Letters ratentf "Patm d v; 720, 1917,

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/ pivotedtogether as at 15, and are hinged together in pairs, as shownat 16, while the end bars have their outer hinges 17 18, passmg the slot5, enter the posts of the frames and are movable therein. The twouppermost ends of the outer members of the lazy tongs are held on thestationary pivots 6.

Brackets 19 and 20, suitably secured to the bed posts, support the outerpivoted ends of the mattress carrying bars 21, 22, the inner ends ofwhich are hinged, as at 23.

Screw bolts 24 are provided, nearthe lower ends of the bed posts, havingwing nuts 25, for holding a slidable slotted block 26, carrying therockers 27. This bed may be used as an ordinary bed, when the rockersare lifted off the floor, and as a rocking cradle, when they are loweredto extend beyond the casters 3.

The modification in Fig. 3, shows the ends of the bars 7, .8, bent, asat 28 and'29, and located within the hollow of the bed post. The pivot6, of course, holds these ends in the usual manner.

The arrangement shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 is characterized by thesupports 30, secured to the bed posts 1 and 2 and having slots 31. A pin32, at the outer end of each channel bar 33 and 34, and surrounded by ahelical spring 32, is vertically movable in the slots, so that the bars33, 3a which are. hinged together at their inner ends, as at 35, can belifted to a sufiicient extent, to free the upper joint of the lazy-tongs14:, normally located within the channel of the bars. Blade springs 36,provide a secure engagement between the walls of the channel and thepivot joint. bars fold downwardly, but only after they have beendisengaged from the lazy-tongs by lateral movement of the latter on thehinge pins 32, against the springs 32', whereupon the lazy-tongs can befolded together as already described.

Figs. 9 and 10, illustrate the invention as applied to a longitudinallyfoldable bed, the upper bars are shown at 37, 38, the locking slide at39.

I claim In a bed frame, the combination with tubular end supports havinglongitudinal slots in their proximate sides, sectional side barsextending inward through the slots, plvoted in said supports, of hingesconnecting the sections of said bars, slides movable In thismodification, the i New York and State of New York this 19th day of JuneA. D. 1915.

J. M. WHALBE.

on one section of said bars preventing said hinges from operating' whenplaced thereever and a bhtr'ality of lz'iz'y tong elements the endmembers thereof being piv'oted with 5 said side bars in said supports,said elements being operable in the mentioned slots. W Signed at NewYork in the county. of

WVitnesses:

FRANCIS J. NEKARDA, L. A. KOHLMANN.

Games of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Gommissioner of Patents, Washington, JD. 0.

